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(1836 - 1870)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 24 year old laborer in Windsor, Berks County, PA. He enlisted and mustered at Windsor, PA on 14 October 1861 as a Private in Company G, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his hand in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October and was discharged from Camp A on a Surgeon’s Certificate on 15 December 1862.
After the War
By 1870 he was an (iron?) ore miner in Union County, PA.
References & notes
His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File,2 both as Joshua Strasser. His injury at Crampton’s Gap from diaries of Henry Keiser and Jacob Haas - transcribed online by Jake Wynn. Specific wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Clementine Stamm (1834-1908) and they had 5 children between 1850 and 1859.
He was one of 6 Strassers/Strausers in Company G.
Birth
10/11/1836; Berks County, PA
Death
06/15/1870; burial in Eyers Old Winfield Cemetery, Winfield, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15392]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 30978]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #56 [AotW citation 30979]